NEW YORK/GENEVA, OCTOBER 20, 2016—A new cholera control strategy using a single-dose oral vaccine instead of two doses could be sufficient in protecting against the deadly disease during an outbreak, according to a study published by international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontiéres (MSF) in the Lancet Global Health this week.

As Kenya’s government-mandated closure of the Dadaab refugee camp draws nearer, MSF is urging the government of Kenya, the United Nations High Commission on Refugees (UNHCR) and donor countries to find an alternative to a policy that will send thousands of refugees back to war-ravaged Somalia.

Conflict-affected populations in Borno state need emergency food aid now

ABUJA, NIGERIA/NEW YORK, SEPTEMBER 28, 2016—The humanitarian emergency in northeastern Nigeria is reaching catastrophic levels, and a massive relief effort is needed immediately in remote areas as well as in the state capital, said the international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) today.

New report exposes pharmaceutical industry failings and highlights new ways of researching and developing medicines that address public health needs.

“Forced From Home” Begins East Coast Tour at the New York Hall of Science

NEW YORK, SEPTEMBER 12, 2016 — The international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) will launch Forced From Home, an interactive, traveling exhibition on the global refugee and migration crisis, this week in New York City.

BRUSSELS/NEW YORK, AUGUST 25, 2016 — On August 17, while conducting search and rescue operations off the Libyan coast, the Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières(MSF) rescue vessel the Bourbon Argos was approached and attacked by a group of armed men onboard an unidentified speedboat, MSF said today, strongly condemning the attack.